• About Us
  • Who Are We
  • Work With Us
Monday, December 11, 2023
No Result
View All Result
NEWSLETTER
The Globe Post
39 °f
New York
44 ° Fri
46 ° Sat
40 ° Sun
41 ° Mon
No Result
View All Result
The Globe Post
No Result
View All Result
Home Featured

Yemen ‘Peace Initiative’ Still Stands Despite Air Strikes: Rebels

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
09/25/19
in Featured, Middle East, World
Yemen ‘Peace Initiative’ Still Stands Despite Air Strikes: Rebels

Supporters of Yemen's Houthi rebels attend a rally marking the fourth anniversary of the Saudi-led coalition's intervention in Yemen, in the capital Sanaa on March 26, 2019. Photo: Mohammerd Huwais - AFP |

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said Wednesday their offer to halt all attacks on Saudi Arabia still stands despite new air strikes allegedly launched by a Riyadh-led coalition fighting the insurgents.

Twenty-two civilians, including children, were killed in air raids earlier this week in Daleh and Amran provinces, the United Nations said.

The strikes came after the Iran-backed Houthis offered to halt drone and ballistic missile attacks on Saudi Arabia as part of efforts to end a war that has pushed Yemen to the brink of famine.

“The initiative is still on, and we are patient,” Hisham Sharaf, the Huthis’ foreign minister, told AFP.

“If they want peace, we are for peace. If they don’t want peace, they know how we can hit them hard.”

The rebels have claimed responsibility for the September 14 attacks on Saudi oil installations that knocked out half of the OPEC kingpin’s production and sent shock waves through world energy markets.

The United States and Saudi Arabia, however, blamed Iran, saying the strikes were carried out with advanced cruise missiles and drones.

According to the U.N., seven civilians including women and children from the same family were killed when air strikes hit a mosque on Monday in the rebel-held northern province of Amran.

Tens of thousands of people, most of them civilians, have been killed since Saudi Arabia and its allies intervened in March 2015 in support of the internationally recognized government after the rebels captured the capital Sanaa.

The U.N. has previously denounced the Saudi-led coalition’s air campaign as “indiscriminate,” and said that countries that are supplying it weapons like the U.S. and U.K. could be held responsible for “war crimes.”

The next day 15 people including seven children were killed in raids on southern Daleh province, partly controlled by the insurgents.

The strikes marked the first major attack believed to have been carried out by the coalition since the Houthis’ offer.

Sharaf said the Houthis will give the Saudi-led coalition more time.”We find that they’re trying to distract the whole world from our initiative by launching these air strikes,” he said.

“We will give them time even if they’re killing our people.”

The fighting has displaced millions and left 24.1 million – more than two-thirds of the population – in need of aid.

The United Nations has described Yemen as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.


More on the Subject

US Accusing Iran of Saudi Oil Attack May End in Devastating Blowback

ShareTweet
Staff Writer

Staff Writer

With Contributions by AFP

Related Posts

Ethiopian migrants hold items as they walk out during an assistance packages distribution for migrants at an International Organization for Migration (IOM) center in the city of Hargeisa, Somaliland
Refugees

Saudi Border Guards Killed Hundreds of Ethiopian Migrants: HRW

by Staff Writer
August 21, 2023
Mahsa Amini protests
Democracy at Risk

Over 90 Reporters Questioned or Arrested in Iran Since Protests: Media

by Staff Writer
August 8, 2023
Mahsa Amini protests
World

G7 Nations Denounce ‘Brutal’ Iran Protest Crackdown

by Staff Writer
November 4, 2022
Mahsa Amini protests
Opinion

Imagining a Free Iran

by Stephen J. Lyons
October 24, 2022
Iran protests
Featured

Iran Protesters Defiant Despite Crackdown

by Staff Writer
October 10, 2022
Mahsa Amini protests
Middle East

Iran Protests Flare for 10th Night as Tensions Grow With West

by Staff Writer
September 26, 2022
Next Post
Greta Thunberg gives an impassioned speech at the UN climate summit, September 23, 2019.

Dear Democrats: Greta Thunberg's ‘How Dare You’ Means You Too

Women look at posters of Tunisian presidential candidates in Tunis on September 2, 2019, the first day of the campaign period

What Does Tunisia’s Election Reveal About Democratic Progress?

Recommended

Policemen stand next to demonstrators, among them a protester (background, C) holding the flag of Iraq, at Mynttorget Square in Stockholm, Sweden

Denmark’s Parliament Adopts Law Banning Koran Burnings

December 8, 2023
A giant crawler machine used to dredge the seabed for diamonds

Norway to Allow Deep-Sea Mining

December 5, 2023
Dutch politician Geert Wilders

Xenophobia in the Netherlands? Unpacking the PVV’s Surprising Success

November 28, 2023
Ukraine war

NATO Chief Says ‘No Alternative’ to Helping Ukraine Stop Putin

November 27, 2023
Migrants stranded at the Finland border

Russia Warns of a ‘Crisis’ at Arctic Border With Finland

November 22, 2023
People march against climate change in Bordeaux, southwestern France, on October 13, 2018.

Earth to Warm Up to 2.9C Even With Current Climate Pledges: UN

November 20, 2023

Opinion

Dutch politician Geert Wilders

Xenophobia in the Netherlands? Unpacking the PVV’s Surprising Success

November 28, 2023
Afghan refugees

The Blessed and Cursed Randomness of Our Lives

October 25, 2023
Joe Biden

The ‘Polycrisis’ Challenge: Biden’s Vision for Global Problem-Solving

September 26, 2023
Pro-Trump protester in front of Capitol Hill.

The Ominous (and Irresponsible) Chatter of a Civil War 

September 4, 2023
A bamboo-based design raises family homes safely above water levels to cope with raising water levels in Bangladesh.

The West Owes Climate Refugees Reparations Now

August 14, 2023
President Donald Trump in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House.

Boxing Day Comes to South Florida

July 5, 2023
Facebook Twitter

Newsletter

Do you like our reporting?
SUBSCRIBE

About Us

The Globe Post

The Globe Post is part of Globe Post Media, a U.S. digital news organization that is publishing the world's best targeted news sites.

submit oped

© 2018 The Globe Post

No Result
View All Result
  • National
  • World
  • Business
  • Interviews
  • Lifestyle
  • Democracy at Risk
    • Media Freedom
  • Opinion
    • Editorials
    • Columns
    • Book Reviews
    • Stage
  • Submit Op-ed

© 2018 The Globe Post